Biographie de Jean-Pierre Birat
Jean-Pierre Birat is a metallurgist who discovered environmental issues as a researcher with a major steel producer. He is a graduate of the Ecole des Mines de Paris and UC Berkeley. He has worked in France (IRSID, ArcelorMittal Research), Japan and Belgium (ESTEP), headed the ULCOS program and has been organizing the "Materials and Society" conferences for 15 years. He teaches the content of this book at the University of Science and Technology of Beijing.